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Sit-ins being after 4 black college students in North Carolina refuse to move from a deli counter when denied service A U-2 reconnaissance plane belonging to the US is shot down in the Soviet Union Hurricane “Donna” strikes the East Coast causing over 100 deaths in the US and the Antilles John F. Kennedy defeats Vice President Richard Nixon in the presidential race Cassius Clay (who later took the name Muhammad Ali) wins his first professional fight Michael Stipe, Tony Robbins, Bono, John F. Kennedy, Jr., and Jeffrey Dahmer are born Pittsburgh Pirates win the World Series Philadelphia Eagles win the NFL championship Montreal Canadiens win the Stanley Cup Alfred Hitchcock’s Psycho is the top grossing film To Kill A Mockingbird by Harper Lee is published The Beatles make their debut in Hamburg, Germany The Flintstones debut |
Yeah, it was a long time ago 😦 What Happened the Year You Were Born?
VIVIAN J. PAIGE | All Politics is Local 
Wow. The Eagles haven’t won in a looooooooooooong time 🙂
So you root for losers? 🙂
So a Redskins fan is trying to make an issue out of someone rooting for losers? 🙂
Yep. Because the Skins have won the NFL championship a couple of times since the Eagles 😉
Vivian, you and I were born the same year. Go rats! (Chinese zodiac)
Yes, it was a good year. Seems the next member of the SCOTUS will be one of us.
In 1964, A Home Cost $20500
Lyndon B. Johnson is president of the US
After riots break out, Panama suspends relations with he US
Cassius Clay becomes heavyweight champion when Sonny Liston throws in the towel in the sixth round in Miami Near Anchorage, the strongest earthquake ever to strike North America kills 117
Worst soccer disaster in history occurs when rioting and panic kills over 300 in Liverpool
Hundreds of white college students work for civil rights in the south during “Freedom Summer”
South Africa sentences Nelson Mandela to life in prison
Kemeny and Kurtz create BASIC (Beginners’ All-purpose Symbolic Instruction Code), an easy to learn high level programming language
Nicolas Cage, Jeff Bezos, Rob Lowe, Elle Macpherson, Courteney Cox Arquette, and Keanu Reeves are born
St. Louis Cardinals win the World Series
Cleveland Browns win the NFL championship
Toronto Maple Leafs win the Stanley Cup
“I Want to Hold Your Hand” by The Beatles released in the US, sparking Beatlemania
The Beatles appear on The Ed Sullivan Show, breaking television ratings records
The game show Jeopardy! debuts on television
Mary Poppins, starring Julie Andrews, is the top grossing film
What Happened the Year You Were Born?
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Note what is missing on that list: The Gulf Of Tonkin Incident.
Yeah but you had Mary Poppins 😀
A House Cost $26600
Richard Nixon is president of the US
A federal jury finds the “Chicago 7” innocent of conspiring to incite riots during the 1968 Democratic National Convention
The lunar spacecraft Apollo 13 splashes down in the Pacific after near catastrophe
The first Earth Day is marked by millions of Americans participating in anti-pollution demonstrations
At Kent State University, National Guardsmen fire into a crowd killing four student antiwar demonstrators
A powerful earthquake claims 50,000 lives in Peru
18 year olds are given the right to vote in federal elections
Tidal wave driven by cyclone from Bay of Bengal hits East Pakistan, killing hundreds of thousands
An anti-war rally is held at Valley Forge, Pennsylvania, attended by John Kerry, Jane Fonda and Donald Sutherland
Queen Latifah, Mariah Carey, Andre Agassi, Uma Thurman, Jennifer Lopez, and Matt Damon are born
Baltimore Orioles win the World Series
Kansas City Chiefs win Superbowl IV
Boston Bruins win the Stanley Cup
Tearjerker Love Story is the top grossing film
I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings by Maya Angelou is published
“The Long and Winding Road” becomes the Beatles’ last Number 1 song
That was “21 years ago” 🙂
Somehow, I’m thinking it was a wee bit earlier than 21 years ago 🙂
In 1952, A Home Cost $16800
Harry Truman is president of the US
Elizabeth II becomes Queen of England after the death of her father, George VI
First explosion of a hydrogen device takes place at Eniwetok Atoll in the Pacific
Christine Jorgensen becomes the first medically and legally certified transsexual
US troops complete their pull-out from Japan
Dwight D. Eisenhower is elected President of the US
Sister Theresa becomes Mother Theresa and begins her charity work in Calcutta
Rick James, Douglas Adams, and Liam Neeson are born
Geez, you are old 🙂
Dwight Eisenhower is president of the US
The first US earth satellite, Explorer I, goes into orbit
Rocker Jerry Lee Lewis marries his 13 year old second cousin, Myra Brown
The “Quiz Show Scandals” rock the television industry and the nation
Vice President Richard Nixon faces hostile anti-American mobs during a visit to South America
14 year old Bobby Fischer wins the United States Chess Championship
Ellen DeGeneres, Michael Jackson, Ice-T, and Mark Cuban are born
New York Yankees win the World Series
Baltimore Colts win the NFL championship
Montreal Canadiens win the Stanley Cup
Breakfast at Tiffany’s by Truman Capote is published
Elvis Presley enters the U.S. Army
Yes, I’m old.